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study cottou insects under tbe auspices of the Agricultural Bureau. 

 His report on the caterpillar, which he treats under the name of JVbc- 

 iua xijlina^ and which was published in the Agricultural Eeport of the 

 Patent Office for 1855, was the most accurate yet published, and 

 formed the basis of most of the articles on this subject for the next 

 tifteen years. It was, in fact, the first article written by a professed en- 

 tomologist. The paper is accompanied by good tigures of all states of 

 the insect. It gives popular descriptions Of the egg, larva, pupa and 

 adult, and quotes from correspondents of the Bureau many interest- 

 ing facts respecting the appearances from year to year. Parts of Dr. 

 Capers' article are also quoted. The remedies given are lights, fires, 

 and poisoned sweets. 



Nothing original appeared now for a number of years. Glover's ar- 

 ticle was copied many times. J. A. Turner, however, in his Cotton Plant- 

 er's Manual, New York, 1857, by way of variety, quotes Dr. Gorham quite 

 fully. In 1864 Mr. A. R. Grote announced, in a paper entitled ^' Notes 

 on certain species of North American Lepidoptera," in the Proceedings 

 of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia, Vol. Ill, the identity bf 

 Say's Xoctua ocylina and Guenee's Anomis hipunetina. Xylina being the 

 first published, the specific name hipunctina was dropped, while the new 

 generic name Anomis was retained, forming the combination Anomis 

 xylina by which the species was known for some ten years. 



With the close of the war and the beginning of the subsequent disas- 

 trous chain of caterpillar years, communications upon the Cotton Worm 

 in the Agricultural Reports and in the various agricultural periodicals 

 became much more numerous than they had been before. Both the 

 annual and the monthly reports of the Department contained much by 

 Glover that was of value. So, too, the letters of G.<W. Morse and J. M. 

 Ferguson were interesting and well worthy of attention. Both these 

 letterSj published in the Monthly Reports for 1867, advised the hand 

 picking of the early brood, on the ground that it appeared in limited, 

 localities, and in small numbers. In the same volume O. H. Hempstead 

 detailed very successful experiments in killing the moths with a home- 

 made trap-lantern. 



In 1868 Walsh and Riley commenced the publication of the American 

 Entomologist, the first volume of which contained several interesting 

 articles on the Cotton Worm. 



The Southern Cultivator for 1869, '70 and '71 contained several papers 

 of value upon this subject, most of them from the pen of the editor, 

 Mr. William Jones 5 and the Rural Carolinian, commencing i^ublication 

 in 1869, contained, in the next few years, many good articles, none of 

 them, however, of striking originality. First among these we may men- 

 tion a lecture delivered before the Farmers" Club of Woodville, Miss., 

 by Dr. D. L. Phares, in May, 1869, and published in the Carolinian for 

 August, 1870. The article is accompanied by a full-page lithograph, not 

 very true to nature, of the worms at work, and contains a good r6sum6 



